Meanwhile in Ireland… @tjmcintyre.com @johnnyryan.bsky.social

Former PMs to VDL “This confrontation concerns…the right of nations to govern themselves without foreign interference; and their ability to protect their children in the digital age. The question is not whether Europe can strike a deal, it is whether Europe and the rest of the world can remain free”

This morning, former Prime Ministers urge Ursula von der Leyen to use EU trade bazooka against Trump www.ft.com/content/af70...

Google's 2007 spiel about its Doubleclick acquisition makes for hilarious reading two decades later publicpolicy.googleblog.com/2007/12/anal...

A spark of action from the European Commission on social media recommender algorithms at long last ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

Comics retailing legend Greg Ketter standing up to ICE in Minneapolis. Yes, that's tear gas. He's 70 years old.

The latest evidence that broadcasting people’s movements and intimate data in the Real-Time Bidding online advertising system is truly dangerous. www.wired.com/story/ice-as...

The EU and US may (we do not know) have arrived at a 1938 style Munich Declaration "agreement" over Greenland. But this is no recipe for peace for our time. Nor was it then.

We still do not know whether there was a Greenland deal, or threats, or continued cowering, or who did and said what.

Vows response if Trump restarts the scrap: "Any threat to acquire European territory by force would be unacceptable. Tariffs would also undermine the foundations of transatlantic relations, if they are put in place, Europe's answer would be united, calm, measured and firm."

Here at #EUCO, 🇪🇺PMs & presidents are discussing transatlantic relations. Based on their comments as they entered, we can see that the leaders are divided into three camps. And Chancellor Merz seems to have joined the Meloni appeaser camp. davekeating.substack.com/p/meloni-was...

So far as I can tell this morning no one absent from the private meetings in Davos knows yet why Trump backed down. We do not yet know -what we said by who to Trump -whether Rutte was pivotal -what the deal was, or if there is any deal at all -we don’t even know if any big EU threat was made

The moment for making nice “has ended” and “the time has come to stand up against Trump,” Anders Fogh Rasmussen, former NATO secretary-general and ex-Danish prime minister, told BBC radio.

Dude, use the teleprompter

Paul Krugman is asking the critical question: will Europe finally use its power?

This is truly terrifying

needs to be done Europe-wide. and applied to US World Cup too - don't buy tickets

Danish consumers have started to boycott U.S. products. UdenUSA, an app to identify U.S. products is now 4th most popular in the App Store. www.dr.dk/nyheder/indl...

Merz calculating whether to hit Trump back He should consider 1. If Trump + big tech algos continue boosting AfD in to power, won’t AfD Govt find a way to jail Merz? 2. Can German car industry replace lost exports to the US with Euro military production? 3. US midterms too far away. Punch hard

Davos, Switzerland, the World Economic Forum.

Gov. Newsom at Davos rips into world leaders who think they can appease Trump: “I should have brought a bunch of knee pads for all the world leaders.…this is pathetic”

Bravo to Tusk, Poland’s PM. (Though European leaders should stop using X to announce their defiance)

I spoke to the Secretary-General of NATO, Emmanuel Macron, Keir Starmer, Friedrich Merz and Giorgia Meloni. Together we stand firm in our commitment to uphold the sovereignty of Greenland and the Kingdom of Denmark.

Deutsche Bank here with the good stuff. Game on.

This new Trump demand is a test for Europe. Read @davekeating.substack.com. He has been consistently excellent on what Europe must do. In my view, all cards must be on the table. Even painful ones, as I said in The Guardian in December www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Precisely

These so-called "patriotic" 🇬🇧newspapers who brought you Brexit were never really patriotic at all. They are driven by a disdain for Britain's European neighbours, and a fawning obsession with America. They do not really want 🇬🇧 to be sovereign. They're content being a 🇺🇸vassal.

Trump now tariffing EU if Greenland is not ceded. Macron is now rightly pushing to deploy Europe’s Trade Bazooka. As I wrote in The Guardian months ago this is long overdue. My call in October —> www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... Macron today —> www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...

Forty years ago, 21 people gathered for the first meeting of what became the IETF. Today, nearly 8000 IETF participants from around the world collaborate in more than 100 working groups and every day billions of people use technologies developed in the IETF. https://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-40/

Headline: German Nazis flood US seeking support from Trump, Musk, Thiel. I had relatives who put their lives on the line to fight Nazis and protect American freedom. www.ft.com/content/7550...

Europe is caught in a pincer. Digital ethics is now a fighting sport, rather than an abstract concept.

This is a mad thing to say in privacy policy for a home alarm / security camera monitoring app (Alarm.com) Paraphrasing the highlighted text - “We will not your data with others … unless ‘necessary’ for our business”

Irish political leaders cannot claim that we need new law before the Grok CSAM machine can be shut down Here is a table of available law to protect our children—> www.iccl.ie/wp-content/u...

“So now you have the Gardaí, the AI Minister and multiple legal experts including @iccl.bsky.social saying the legislation is all there already - it’s going to be increasingly difficult for the Government not to take a position on this”.

There is a crisis of impunity. The Musk/Grok stuff is just one f many examples of people who are counting on there never being any consequences. And it all makes me just incandescently mad.

Once more, Walsh saying "we have the legislation". The suggestion from politicians in recent days that this is some problem that is beyond us as a society and state to deal with is falling apart here.

A reminder: it doesn't have to be this way. Mexico has a hell of a lot more to lose than Europe by angering Trump. Yet this is the response of its president just now. This isn't a global phenomenon. Why have Europeans proven to be so uniquely cowardly over the past year?

Yes, just a little strange...

The Garda Síochána (Recording Devices) (Amendment) Bill 2025 gives gardaí new powers to apply algorithms to images and video to find and categorise people using their biometric data. This is AI-powered surveillance. data.oireachtas.ie/ie/oireachta...

My message to Ursula von der Leyen in The Guardian this morning: America’s bet on AI is now so gigantic that every MAGA voter’s pension is bound to the bubble’s precarious survival. If she grabs Trump where it hurts, Europe will win this fight. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

‘It’s surreal’: US sanctions lock International Criminal Court judge out of daily life. My interview with Canadian judge Kimberly Prost, who was sanctioned by the US for ruling to authorise an investigation into war crimes by US troops in Afghanistan www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...

I'll be speaking in Brussels tomorrow at the EPC Annual Conference @epc-official.bsky.social epc.eu/events/liber...

European Commissioner for Justice Michael McGrath is under tough questioning from Claire McEvoy on the ICCL stage right now

@demconextcd.bsky.social Roisin, congratulations on this new centre! Are you here in the hall?

This is great, from @anandwrites.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...

The year is 3025 Russia is a patchwork of warlord republics that communicate through hacked satellites. China is run by an AI empire. The US hides behind a continental shield wall In Brussels, EU officials meet for the 50,463rd time try to find a definition of economic security

Ex Lithuanian foreign minister Gabrielius Landsbergis "If you're a European leader asking your team to book you the next flight to Washington to go talk to Daddy, please don’t Not without a plan, not cap in hand, not humiliating us all in front of cameras at the Oval office"

Correction: EC letter to us concerned our earlier complaint against Ireland’s failure to fully transpose the Collective Redress Directive. We have just learned this following clarification sought by the Irish Govt from the EC, then relayed to us by a journalist. The fault for the error is my own.

I’ll be speaking at this in Brussels in two weeks

The European Commission is now digging deeper in to our complaint against Ireland’s process by which Ireland appointed ex-Meta lobbyist as its Data Protection Commissioner www.rte.ie/news/2025/11...